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tine 1. Ugaritic--like Semitic in general--has no special inflexional pattern ("case") coirparable to the Indo-European vocative. But it does possess several syntactic nreans for the expression of similar ideas. Of these, four are sufficiently well attested and ray therefore be specified here at the outset: A. 1-4 substantive; B. y-+ substantive; C. substantive + -nm.1; D. substantive aione2. Eirect address being pretty frequent in Ugaritic literary texts, the vocative function of these four syntactical patterns was easy to detect and is by now no doubt a natter of commron knowledge arong Ularitologists. The next question to arise naturally was: 'hat is the functiornal distribution of these patterns? The partial answers so far given to this question3seer, to be based on too cursory a survey of the actual occurrences to be regarded as reliable or satisfactory4. It is proposed therefore to undertake here a detailed reexamination of the whole problem of the vocative in Ugari:tic by utilizing thle relevant evidence contained in the literary texts (including those published during the war. ) with reasonable completeness. Absolute exhaustiveness cannot, of course, be claimed, in view of
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- Author
- A. D. Singer
- Published
- 1948
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)